Ecclesiastes 3:1 meaning and explanation
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, a wisdom figure reflecting on human experience "under the sun." His long poem, beginning here, lists paired moments that make up a life: birth and death, planting and uprooting, weeping and laughing. The Hebrew word rendered "season" is zman, an appointed time, and "purpose" is chephets, a matter or delight.
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